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  1. Updates
  2. March 2025

Enhancing AI productivity in Fabric notebooks with Copilot updates

We are thrilled to introduce a new version of Copilot for Data Engineering and Data Science, a next-generation AI-powered assistant designed to elevate your data analysis and coding experience. Continuing to listen to customer feedback and are introducing new features to improve productivity, Copilot arrives with expanded capabilities, improved workflows, and a deeper integration into … Continue reading “Enhancing AI productivity in Fabric notebooks with Copilot updates”

Copilot and AI Capabilities will be accessible to all paid SKUs in Microsoft Fabric 

Additional authors: Nellie Gustafsson, Joanne Wong We are excited to announce that we will be removing the F64 SKU requirement to use Copilot and AI capabilities in Microsoft Fabric. This means that on April 30th, customers using paid SKUs F2 and above will have access to AI capabilities like Copilot, Fabric data agents, AI Functions … Continue reading “Copilot and AI Capabilities will be accessible to all paid SKUs in Microsoft Fabric “

Fabric Data Factory: What’s New and Latest Roadmap

Fabric Data Factory enables every organization to tackle the complexities of ingesting data, applying data transformations, and orchestrating these different data-related activities, needed to support every organization’s data integration needs, and delivering modern data management architectures. Thank you to all customers and partners who shared their Ideas, and suggestions, as we work together on shaping … Continue reading “Fabric Data Factory: What’s New and Latest Roadmap”

Introducing Autoscale Billing for Spark in Microsoft Fabric

We are introducing Autoscale Billing for Spark in Microsoft Fabric, a new billing model designed to offer greater flexibility and cost efficiency for Spark workloads. With this model, when enabled, your Spark workloads will no longer directly consume the Fabric capacity this billing option is enabled on; instead, they will run alongside your existing capacity (F2 … Continue reading “Introducing Autoscale Billing for Spark in Microsoft Fabric”

Announcing backup storage billing for SQL database in Microsoft Fabric: what you need to know

Ensuring data protection with automated backups SQL database in Microsoft Fabric provides automatic backups from the moment a database is created, ensuring seamless data protection and recovery. The system follows a robust backup strategy: This approach lets users restore their database to any point in the past seven days, making data recovery simple and efficient. … Continue reading “Announcing backup storage billing for SQL database in Microsoft Fabric: what you need to know”